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After a couple of weeks recovering at home with dad David, sister Erin and brothers Blake, nine, Oakley, three, and one-year-old Reid, Bryony and Parker paid a visit to the hospital to thank staff in person.

Little Parker seem oblivious to all the fuss and attention the family received and he slept soundly as photographers snapped away.

And Bryony, herself a nurse, said the care she received was first-class.

“It was so important to me to come back into the hospital to personally thank the team,” she said.

“I was so impressed that they were all ready waiting for me and I was taken into theatre straight away which saved both mine and Parker’s lives.

“We’re all so grateful.”

Janice McNichol, head of midwifery at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, said the team had been delighted to meet little Parker.

She said: “Thankfully what Bryony experienced is relatively rare and we’re pleased to see they’re both doing really well.”